Now, a class lawsuit vs. DHS by the ACLU alleging that separating mothers and children seeking asylum by detaining often at long distances from each other with minimal phone communication only is now Trump administration policy in practice shows that my warning was not without foundation.

The most widely publicized example of this abuse has involved a Congolese mother and her 7-year old daughter who were detained separately at facilities 2,000 miles from each other while seeking asylum, until the mother (but not the child) was suddenly released - obviously in response to public outcry over this example of inhumanity.

However, according to a report in TheGuardian, one advocacy group, the Women's Refugee Commission, has identified 429 cases of family separation in detention under the Trump administration, ranging from toddlers to young teenagers.

As I pointed out in my comment last year, incarcerating parents separately from their young children is not just a matter of drama involving ancient Greek tyrants (such as the one I mentioned in Euripides' Medea - who, according to that play, orders a mother and her children to be deported together, not separately).

It is a practice typical of modern dictators as well. Therefore, while one should perhaps not be surprised that the administration of a president who cannot tolerate the idea of darker skinned immigrants from "shithole" countries in Africa or the Western Hemisphere coming to the US with any kind of visa or authorization would engage in the barbaric practice of locking up parents separately from their young children, all Americans should be concerned of this latest example of America's relentless march toward dictatorship based on Donald Trump's agenda of making our immigration system whiter.